Mikes' Video Game Podcast: Recent Episodes
Mike Geig and Mike Wu
Episode 23: The Fake Episode
This isn’t our first episode 23 and it’s probably not our best! After losing the last two episodes to the hands of fate, we are finally back with a new episode 23 and this time it is our Season 2 finale. Join us as we wrap up the current industry going-ons and do a look back at our previous episodes. I’m also making it a point to promote our Twitter more: @MikesVGP. Check it out! Today’s topics include:
- EA studio closures; good and bad
- What happened to episode 23 and 24?
- Mike doesn’t write very detailed summaries
- Industry stablization
- Digital Downloads
- Mike gets angry
As always, thanks for listening!
Intro music by Soughtaftersounds / Post image from LazerGamer.net!
Episode 22: The E3 episode
In this episode we talk a bit about the announcements from the recent E3 event. I’m also making it a point to promote our Twitter more: @MikesVGP. Check it out! Today’s topics include:
- History of E3
- How is the dev biz relationship changing?
- The Cronut age of gaming
- Why Little Johnny is so sad
- Destiny 2, Re: The Darkness
- Super Lucky’s Tale
As always, thanks for listening!
Intro music by Soughtaftersounds / Post image from Women’s Health!
After a drought, let there be Episode 21!
We’re finally back after extended travel and time off. In episode 21 we attempt (and mostly fail) to answer the questions you’ve sent in. Feel free to send us any more you might have. Here are some things we discussed
- Mike still doesn’t know what episode it is
- Vacationing for days, son
- How do we find mentors? Are they related to Mentos?
- Is it good to know how the sausage is made?
- Criticism… boo
As always, thanks for listening!
Intro music by Soughtaftersounds
Post image from The Karate Kid!
Evil Bastard
Yarrrr! Episode 20 off tha’ port bow!
In this episode we go a little retro and replay a classic game: Pirates! Tune in and enjoy this walk down memory lane:
- Nintendo Switch
- Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Sid Meier’s Pirates!
- Keep on Sloopin
- Mike and Mike have completely different play styles
As always, thanks for listening!
Intro music by Soughtaftersounds
Post image from Pirates!
Welcome to Episode 19 where we talk all about the things we talk all about. Here’s what is in this feature rich episode:
- We still have some listeners (yay!)
- How much time do you spend gaming? What does it cost you?
- Changes to Steam’s Greenlight process (link)
- How to make a peanut butter sandwich (and how to steal tech)
- Magic Leap Lawsuit (link)
As always, thanks for listening!
Intro music by Soughtaftersounds
Post image from Steam
Hello everyone and welcome back to Mikes’ Video Game Podcast! After a long wait we are finally here with a new episode. We’ve missed you during those long winter nights… Anyway, we have a decent (medium-quality-ish) episode for you. So here we go:
- VReality day at Microsoft (link)
- Vision Summit Beijing (link)
- Zenimax vs Oculus court decision
- Game Mechanics that Suck
- One Mike is racist and the other Mike is Chinese
As always, thanks for listening!
Intro music by Soughtaftersounds
Post image from Kotaku
Episode 17: Like… Wooooaaaah. So this one took a long while to post. I am definitely thinking that this will be the last one for 2016. Hopefully, after Christmas I can fix my site which will go a long way to making these podcast posts much smoother. In this episode we talk about time as a mechanic in games. #Deep. Topics include:
- JRPGs
- Mobile games and their dastardly tricks
- Time as a mechanic
- The singularity
As always, thanks for listening
Episode 16: Worst Podcast Ever? After a long break we are finally back with episode 16. In this episode we talk at length about Pokemon Go and try to figure this whole “long distance thing out”. Topics include:
- Pokemon Go
- Media and cynicism
- Bad scheduling
- Catching up
As always, thanks for listening
Episode 15: Or is it? This episode we discuss industry crunch and whether or not we should whine about it. I also try my hand at bleeping a swear word. It’s pretty good! Topics include:
- Industry Crunch
- Negative feelings
- Nintendo NX, sort of
- PS4K
- Blade runner
As always, thanks for listening
Episode 14: GDC Edition. OK, so first off, this one is super late. We recorded this right after GDC, but then I left on a longer work trip and forgot to upload the audio. Better late than never. In this episode we discuss GDC happenings, and general musings. Topics include:
- Odd cider
- I swear a little (cover your ears)
- GDC parties
- De-Broify-ing of the Industry
- Establishing a network
- Video game medkits are BS
As always, thanks for listening
Episode 13: Welcome to the SpoooOOOooooOOOky episode. Well, not really, but we do talk a lot about violence and pornography in virtual reality (nothing explicit, I promise!). In this episode:
- A bunch of VR discussions (again)
- VR as a social platform
- Violence and Porn (and how it affects the users)
- Firewatch, a little
- Why can’t a T-Rex clap its hands?
As always, thanks for listening!
And he said, “Lo, what sound over yonder browser breaks? Tis the episode bearing the number, 12”.
Welcome to Episode 12. In this episode we drink whiskey and ramble. I would say it is awesome, but my wife says I should be more realistic. Topics in this episode:
- Global Game Jam
- Firefly had 15 episodes
- Game deals are down
- People are waiting to buy mom and pop
- Witness and piracy
- VR… again
Links, yo
- Nintendo
- Industry deals down
- Witness
As always, thanks for listening!
Episode 11: It’s been a while! We’re finally back (and a little rusty) after the holidays. Have some topics in Yo face
- Mike’s got 99 problems and his big toe is most of them
- Oculus Costulus
- VR in general
- Amazon Prime Deals, Steam sales
- Sneaky Sony, oh you! (article)
- Blood Rage!
- Tons of rambling
As always, thanks for listening!
Episode 10: Bugles are a wonderful treat that you eat with your feet! Welcome to episode X (if you want to be edgy). We got some good stuff in this one:
- Why Mike starts off every episode (instead of Mike)
- How to get players to care
- Manipulating emotions
- Jake
- Networking
- Hallways and rooms (with paintings)
- Yellow chairs
As always, thanks for listening!
Check-check it out ya’ll, ep number 9. You can this is a poem because it almost sort of rhymes (which everyone knows is better than actually rhyming). We got some good stuff in this one:
- NCGEA Podcast
- Blizzard and Activision
- Vidya game films
- Matchmaking
- Apparently, I’m a jerk
- Midwest game scene
- Networking teaser
As always, thanks for listening!
You asked for it (you didn’t), and we delivered (we were going to do it anyway): Episode 8: The Listener Appreciation Extravaganza! Now with ~50% more content (we ran long)! Grab yourself a slice of these sweet topics:
- Controlling characters for the feels
- Dimensions!
- Books about video games that we like
- Things that annoy us
- Uppers and downers
As always, thanks for listening!
Hello everyone. Episode 7. I feel like we’ve all done something here today. You know what? Take the rest of the week off!
- Jobz (with a Z because it’s serious)
- Bad audio quality because Mike eats crab chips
- Streaming and digital games
- Mario 1-1 (video)
- Redactions!
As always, thanks for listening!
Hello everyone. Episode 6, wut-wut. I’m not even going to describe this one (now with 100% more Oprah):
- Themes Parks!
- Oprah (not kidding)
- Unconferences
- Viva Pinada tv show
- Fig
- Windows 10 for Gamerz
As always, thanks for listening!
Hello everyone. It’s time for episode 5. This episode wasn’t delayed, lost, and doesn’t have bad audio quality… so… I don’t have a lot to say about it… Topics in this episode include:
- New intro sound (music found and credited here)
- Ukraine vs The Ukraine
- Making games for non-local markets
- What is a floppy disk
- 1st and 3rd party content
- Mod$
- I do, in fact, love bees
- Soothing sounds of 90’s SKA music (is not in this episode)
As always, thanks for listening!
Well, it’s been longer than the normal wait for this one. Travel (and losing an episode due to technical crap) means that we were a bit delayed. The wait is finally over, though, as we present Mikes’ Video Game Podcast episode 4 (duh duh duh). Topics in this episode include:
- Cortana is still awesome (thanks Jen!)
- New intro sound (music found and credited here)
- Virtual Reattle-ty (a really bad attempt to mix Seattle with Virtual Reality… nothing to see here)
- Passing of Satoru Iwata
- Cinematics (Mike is a Sith)
- Blood and Thunder
- Mike is the master of Zen
As always, thanks for listening!